My name is Jannisol, im a liberal arts math and science major in persuit of studying veterinary medicine. One of the things i've always enjoyed was caring for animals and drawing. I first started drawing at the age of 8. I remember always having drawing competitions with my cousins or my friends. This helped me develop my drawing skills over the years but i eventually stopped. Ive always had an appreciation for art especially performing arts. I would always join school talent shows, participate in acting clubs and even got chosen to go to a ballet school back in middle school because of how much i enjoyed and invested time into this thing we call art. I appreciate the fact that art has many forms and different ways we can express it. I chose this class hoping to learn how art developed and influence all these different eras in time.
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings . Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision , created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. The roots of surrealism lie behind the ethos of romanticism and dada during the 19th century. Dada was a movement in which artists stated their disgust with the war and with life in general. These artists showed that European culture had lost meaning to them by creating pieces of “anti-art” or “nonart.” Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.” These artist tried to access their unconscious mind through automatism. In ar...
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